Gate.



Patented July i6, |90l.

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GATE.

SEECFl-'CATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 678,797, dated July 16, 1901. Application ined nach so, 1901. stanno. 53,704. (Nom-nti.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, OMAR STEVENS and MANFORD A. STEVENS, citizens of the United States, residing at New Salem, in the county of Rush and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to improvements in gates for driveways; and the object is to provide means whereby the gate can be opened and closed by a person on horseback or in a vehicle without dismounting or alighting from the vehicle.

The object also is to provide a construction that wili loe well supported without the necessity of setting the gate-post in the ground, where it will rot off and destroy the support of the gate.

The object also is to provide an opening and closing mechanism that will consist of few parts which operate in a sim ple and positive manner and which will be wholly above ground, out of danger of being covered with water and frozen up in cold weather.

We accomplish the objects of the invention by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure lis a perspective view of a gate having our improvements, the View showing the gate in full lines in closed position; and Fig. 2 is a detail showingr the gate partly open.

Like lette-rs of reference indicate like parts throughout both views of the drawings.

The gate A is hinged to a frame of which B is the principal post, C an auxiliary post farther down the fence-line, and D a third post set at one side of the other two. The three posts are connected by the horizontal timbers E E E, placed upon the ground and forming a foundation or base to support the posts, which latter need not and preferably will not be set in the ground.

The posts B and D are connected by the cylindrical tube F, which preferably will be a piece of gas-pipe, the ends of which are inserted in round holes in the said two posts and form a hinge for the gate A, the corner of which gate is fastened to said tube F. This hinge allows the gate to swing up in a vertical plane into the open position. (Shown in dotted lines in Fig. l.)

Pivotally secured to the top of the post C is the lever G, the inner end of which lever is connected by the chain g with the lower bar of the gate A at a point suitably remote from the hinged corner to givea sufficient leverage. The opposite and outer end of the lever G is provided with the weight g', which can be adjusted on the lever to a position in which it will nearly but not quite counterbalance the closed gate. It is apparent that it will take more power to start the gate up and move it through the rst stages of its opening than will be subsequently required, and inasmuch as the weight g on lever G nearly but not quite balances the gate in the closed position of the latter we provide means by which the deficiency will be supplied by a lift on the gate administered by the person desiring to open same in order to pass through. This is supplied by attaching a cable H to the top of the gate between its ends, passing the cable up over a pulley h, supported from the top of the post B, and thence over the pulley t', supported by post I, standing by the roadside a suitable distance away from the gate. The end of the cable hangs down from pulley t' in easy reach and is provided with the handle j.

Inasmuch as the gate must be closed as well as opened by persons approaching from either side, we duplicate the cable-pulleys and posts, as shown at H, (the pulley 7L mounted by the side ofpulley 71 on same shaft,) pulley t" and post I', and handlej. The person desiring to pass the gate will ride up to post I or I and pulldown on handlej orj, as the case may be,and raise the gate by the cable to about the position shown in Fig. 2, when the weight on the lever G will be able to exert sufficient force to continue to raise the gate and carry it past its point of equilibrium. Then in order to keep the gate from striking the base-frame connecting the posts with too much force byits momentum in opening and also to nearly counterbalance the opened gate, whereby it will be sensitive to a reasonable force in closing, we provide the .arm G on lever G and connect the outer end of said arrn by chain g with the adjacent end of the gate, as shown. In the operation of opening after the gate has passed a certain position the chain g becomes slack and the chain g" taut, and in closing the gate the same cords which lifted the gate to open itlwill start the gate to close by pulling the vertical or raised gate back toward its lowered position. Hence the person passing along the driveway will pull down on the iirst handle, as t', that he comes to to open the gate and after passing through will pull down on the handle, as i',

on the other side to close the gate.

It will be noted that the cables H and H are fastened to bars Z instead ofV directly to the frame of gate. The purpose ot' this is to cause the pull on the cables to automatically open a fastening by which the closed gate is latched. The barZ isa lever pivotallysecured to the top rail ot the gate. It is connected by cord m with the bar n, pivoted to the front end bar of the gate. This bar n by its weight drops out against the post P and its outer end enters a notch p in said post, which locks the gate against any upward movement ot' the latter until the end of the bar is first swung back out of the notch. A pull on the handles t' or 1l will draw the bar n out of the notch in the post P the first thing.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A gate pivoted at one corner to Swingin a vertical plane, a lever connected on one side of its pivot by a flexible connection with the lower side of the gate, and by a iiexible connection from the end of tho gate to the same arm of the lever, nearer the pivot, a weight on the other side ot' the pivot nearly balancing the gate, and a cord connected with the gate, pulleys over which the cord is passed and a hand-pull to which the cord is fastened, substantially as described and shown.

2. A gate pivoted to swing in a vertical plane about one of its corners, a separatelypivoted lever, a flexible connection between one end of the lever and the lower end of the gate, a lateral arm on the lever between the said iiexible connection and the pivot, flexible connection of the outer end ot the arnl and the adjacent end of the gate, a weight on the end of the lever on the other side of the pivot from the end of the lever having the arm, and a cord fastened to the upper side of the gate, and passing over pulleys connected with hand pulls on either side of the gate, substantially as described and shown.

3. A gate pivotally secured at one of its lower corners, a weighted and pivoted lever having double flexible connection with the lower side and end, respectively, of the gate, a notched post at the free end of the gate, a bar pivoted to the gate and adapted to drop by gravity into the notch in the post, a bar pivo ted to the top of the gate and connected with the iirst-inentioned bar, cords connected with the second bar, pulleys over which the cords pass and hand-pulls terminating the cords, all substantially as described and Shown. A

In witness whereof we have/hereunto set ourhan'ds and seals at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 9th day of February, A. D. 1901.

Witnesses S. MAHLON UNGER, J. A. MINTURN.

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